Warmed up to a set perfect for a Caribou celestial pitch, the first day of the festival was to feel the heat on the first day of the Prima Bela Sound Barcelona. Charli XCX is the first Powerpuff Girls, one of the headlining Powerpuff Girls of one of the statues that will be seen first when they attend the PARC Del Forum this year, and guitar-driven sets like Jamie XX, FKA Twig, and Julie and Mama are slowly leading. Chronologically, there are five highlights from the first day of Primavera Sound 2025.
Julie will cause a storm
I walk towards the squealing and loud drumming sounds of guitars and introducing Julie from the Los Angeles band. Despite technical difficulties, their set was closely balanced between dynamically paced repetitions of grunge, shoegaze and punk. “Ham is low,” says Kian Pruzand at one point, and when he clears it, the group will be charged and highlights “pg.4 3 hedge photos.” The presence of vocalist/bassist Alexandria Elizabeth was one of the dark and poor, but more animated with songs like “Lochness,” and the emotional resonance of Pourzand when he joined the vocals was different. (Her ribboned instruments were a great visual touch.) Together, they were painful but fearless hypnosis. I enjoyed Julie’s debut album. My anti-aircraft friendBut I haven’t come back much. Their live shows not only reminded me of their strengths, but they crystallized them.
Cassandra Jenkins, Breaking Open
Cassandra Jenkins played Primavera a la Ciutat a few years ago. “Did you meet you in 2022?” Jenkins asks the crowd standing in front of her during the Amazon music stage that the line was long. What a joy to see such a huge stage at the main festival. (“That one goes out to all the billionaires in Texas,” she says, “about “Aurora, Illinois,” which refers to a space trip funded by William Shatner’s Jeff Bezos.) Her remarks are: Summary of the incredible nature That was given space for breathing and sparkle, especially when the saxophone illuminated the still essential rendition of “hard drive.” New songs from My Light, My Destroyer It sparkled from ratcheting the distortions of “Aurora” to the stirring guitar work of “Omakaze,” where her vocals were feather-light and gorgeous. In the live environment, you can hear the echoes of Jenkins’ dead sea labelmates. Mitsky’s subtle theatricality plays the line “punching the clock” in “Only One” with a jersey guitar solo from “Petco.” “You have to play an ocean song,” she sees it, confronts the “new bikini,” and “water, it kills everything.” Jenkins’ music – not cold, but warm and open-minded – can certainly move your blood.
Mom gets a fever
As the temperature starts to drop, I go back to the train stage and listen to my mom raising her fever on one of the most infectious songs of the year, “I Want You (Fever).” With the politeness of bassist and producer Aron Kobayashi Rich (drummer Preston Flux was also a force of nature), the band ripped and ripped the highlights of their recent album Welcome to my blue sky and 2022 Famous names. While they were drawn from many of the same reference points as Julie, they quickly praised the Mama’s show, charming, courageous, and often windy, not without Eta Friedman and Allegra Weingerten. It was less hypnotized than the inverted, deeply felt cover of Elliot Smith’s “The Christian Brothers.” Ending with “Speeding 72,” they sang the crowd, still drenched in sweat.
FKA twigs finally
It was time to head to the main stage, and I felt like sticking. This is because Lorelei’s Nate Amos was greeting the crowd on the stage at the adjacent Schwarzcop, so I already have his set in conflict with the FKA twig (not to mention the Bay of Magdalena). It’s very easy to stay and sing “dance at the club” rather than actually listening to music intended for dancing in the club. Maybe MJ Lenderman, reserved for the festival, will show up for their co-version versions of the song. Life can be very easy. But I had dinner in the darkness, in the lonely summer breeze – I could sing Those linesI also decided to strengthen myself and pace myself with a large number of fans to live another brat summer.
I couldn’t miss the FKA twig. She appeared in Primavera Sound twice in a row, and this time she was planning to bring it in. eusexua On the stage. “Perfect Stranger” sets an atmosphere that is charmingly luxurious and immediately appealing, showing the audience that the nominal words that she actually spent much of the rollout she was trying to define actually live in the body. Rather than a form of liberation, Twig and her dancers used their movements as something that looked like a kind of exorcism between sensual and otherworldly. Focusing on the dance that threatened to mask Twigs’ similarly acrobatic singing, mostly through pole dancing and sword choreography, it felt perfectly intertwined and even tense fans in the distance could climb.
Inside eusexua The cuts, highlights included the booming “Drums of Death” and the surprising expanded outro of the title track, but Caprison“Honda” and “Papiborn” served as melting points for the show. The ballad-heavy third act called the apex required complete silence to translate perfectly – focusing on the pause and trembling of her voice – which seemed impossible from where I was standing. However, it was clear that hundreds of fans still felt sad after hearing her 2019 hit “Celophane.” I try to put it into words, but I am overwhelmed.
For all “it’s so over”…
Blade Although fatigue is real, at this point I was less interested in assessing the state of cultural phenomena than my physical stamina. I stayed at the Estrella Dam Stage through Jamie XX’s traffic set. This was my third time seeing a Charli XCX on Primavera Sound, but last year was special. Blade. It was all predictable, but the show was billed as a celebration, returning to the album’s first anniversary main stage. Charli was hyping it, he was posting “We’re so back.” Prior to the 1:15am performance, both her and Troysivan’s refrains were like “We’re so drunk.” (That was also Shebang’s birthday.)
As an exclusive European showcase for their sweat show, it was about the interaction between the two stars and the scale of the audience (according to his estimates, the performance of Sheban’s biggest crowd). Blade itself. Shivan’s set was breathtaking induction and was professionally choreographed just like the previous year, but it was a joy to actually hear them sing “1999” together this time. As for Charli, the most exciting moments weren’t necessarily the biggest except when Chappell Roan revealed himself as a “Apple” girl, but what he pushed was Blade On the edge. “Von Dutch”, “360”, “Suppose”, “Club Classic” – all of these songs were as well as her old hits, and it was still fun. However, it was an outro to “365” and slipped into the enthusiasts, which was the most thrilling. The lively frustration of “sympathy” is a knife and a “girl” and is very confused” (bleed well by Shivan’s “one of your girls”), and unpublished. And most of all, it was the “everything is romantic” echo that debuted at Primavera many months ago, and we all made a new decision to prove that we will continue to feel the heat, time and time again.
Source: Our Culture – ourculturemag.com
